Michael Ben Fleischman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Room E15-485

20 Ames Street

Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 

USA

mbf@mit.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personal Information

I am currently President and CTO of Bluefin Labs, a startup company that I founded with my advisor Prof Deb Roy . Bluefin builds off of my graduate work on Grounded Language Modeling and focuses on linking comments in social media with content on broadcast television. Before Bluefin, I was a doctoral student in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where I worked with on issues involving language learning and non-linguistic context.  Before coming to MIT, I worked with Dr. Eduard Hovy in the area of Natural Language Processing at the Information Sciences Institute, while completing a Masters of Science in Computational Linguistics at the University of Southern California.  I have also worked in the field of Neuroscience with Dr. Monte S. Buchsbaum at the Mt Sinai Neuroscience Brain Imaging Laboratory , after graduating from Columbia University with Bachelors degrees in Philosophy and in Psychology.

 

News & Press

Technology Review Article on my PhD thesis work. (June 21, 2007).

 

Curriculum Vitae

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Resources

Click here to download 2,000,000 instance-concept pairs automatically extracted from newspaper text.

 

Publications:


Natural Language Processing

 

Fleischman, M. and Roy, D.   Grounded Language Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition of Sports Video.  HLT/NAACL.  Columbus, OH.  June 2008.

 

Fleischman, M. and Roy, D.   Unsupervised Content-Based Indexing of Sports Video Retrieval.  9th ACM Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR).  Augsburg, Germany.  September 2007.

 

Fleischman, M. Roy, B. and Roy, D.   Temporal Feature Induction for Sports Highlight Classification.  ACM Multimedia.  Augsburg, Germany.  September 2007.

 

Fleischman, M. and Roy, D.    Situated Models of Meaning for Sports Video Retrieval.  HLT/NAACL.  Rochester, NY.  April 2007.

 

Fleischman, M. and Roy, D.    Representing Intentions in a Cognitive Model of Language Acquisition: Effects of Phrase Structure on Situated Verb Learning .  AAAI Spring Symposium.  Palo Alto , CA.  March 2007.

 

Fleischman, M., Decamp, P., and Roy, D.    Mining Temporal Patterns of Movement for Video Content Classification .  8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval.  Santa Barbara, CA.  October 2006.

 

Roy, D., Patel, R., DeCamp, P., Kubat, R., Fleischman, M, Roy, R., Mavridis, N., Tellex, S., Salata, A., Guinness, J., Levit, M., Gorniak, P. The Human Speechome Project. 28th Annual Cognitive Science Conference. Vancouver, Canada.  June, 2006.

 

Fleischman, M. B. and Hovy, E. Taking Advantage of the Situation: Non-Linguistic Context for Natural Language Interfaces to Interactive Virtual Environments .  10th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). Sydney, Australia. January 2006.

 

Fleischman, M. B. and Roy, D.  Why Verbs are Harder to Learn than Nouns: Initial Insights from a Computational Model of Intention Recognition in Situated Word Learning.  27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy. July 2005.

 

Fleischman, M. B. and Roy, D.  Intentional Context in Situated Language Learning.  Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning , Ann Arbor, MI. June 2005.

 

Fleischman, M. B. and Hovy, E.  Multi-Document Person Name Resolution.  42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Reference Resolution Workshop, Barcelona, Spain. July 2004.

 

Namhee Kwon, Fleischman, M., and Hovy, E.  SENSEVAL Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles Using Maximum Entropy Models. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, SENSEVAL-3 Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text, Barcelona, Spain. July 2004.

 

Namhee Kwon, Fleischman, M., and Hovy, E.  Frame-Net Based Semantic Parsing Using Maximum Entropy Models. 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Geneva, Switzerland, 2004.

 

Philpot, A., Fleischman, M., and Hovy, E. Semi-automatic Construction of a General Purpose Ontology .  International Lisp Conference, New York, New York.  Oct. 2003.

 

Fleischman, M., Hovy, E, and Echihabi, A.  Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked.  41th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sapporo, Japan. July 2003.

 

Fleischman, M., Namhee Kwon, and Hovy, E.  Maximum Entropy Models for FrameNet Classification. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Sapporo, Japan. July 2003.

 

Fleischman, M. and Hovy, E.  FrameNet Classification Using Maximum Entropy.  HLT/NAACL. Edmonton, Canada, 2003.

 

Traum, D., Fleischman, M. and Hovy, E.  NL Generation for Virtual Humans in a Complex Social Environment.  AAAI 2003 Spring Symposium on Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue. Palo Alto, CA, 2003.

 

Fleischman, M. and Hovy, E.  Recommendations without User Preferences: A Natural Language Processing Approach.  Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). Miami Beach, Florida, 2003.

 

Fleischman, M. and Hovy, E.  Fine Grained Classification of Named Entities.  19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). Taipei, Taiwan, 2002.

 

Fleischman, M. and Hovy, E.  Emotional Variations in Speech-Based Natural Language Generation.  International Natural Language Generation Conference.  Arden House, New York, 2002.

 

Fleischman, Michael.  Automated Subcategorization of Named Entities.  39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Student Research Workshop, Toulouse, France July 2001.

 

Neuroscience

Buchsbaum MS, Nenadic I, Hazlett EA, Spiegel-Cohen J, Fleischman MB, Akhavan A, Silverman JM, Siever LJ.  Differential metabolic rates in prefrontal and temporal Brodmann areas in schizophrenia and schizotypal personality disorder.  Schizophrenia Research. 2002 Mar 1:54(1-2):141-50.

 

Hazlett, E.A., Buchsbaum, M.S., Jeu, L.A., Nenadic, I., Fleischman, M.B., Shihabuddin, L., Haznedar, M.M., Harvey, P.D.  Hypofrontality in unmedicated schizophrenia patients studied with PET during performance of a serial verbal learning task.  Schizophrenia Research 43 (2000) 33-46.

 

Hazlett EA, Buchsbaum MS, Tang CY, Fleischman MB, Wei T, Byne W, Haznedar MM.  Thalamic activation during an attention-to-prepulse startle modification paradigm: a functional MRI study. Biological Psychiatry. 2001 Aug 15;50(4):281-91.

 

Shihabuddin, L., Buchsbaum, M.S., Hazlett, E.A., Silverman, J., New, A., Brickman, A.M., Mitrapoulou, V., Nunn, M., Fleischman, M.B., Tang, C. & Siever, L.J. (1999). Striatal size and relative glucose metabolic rate in Schizotypal Personality Disorder and Schizophrenia.  Arch. Gen. Psychiatry. 2001;58:877-884.

 

Grossman, R., Yehuda, R., Sta. Maria, N., Lee, R., Fleischman, M., de Leon, M., Buchsbaum, M.  Hydrocortizone PET Study of Central Glucocorticoid Sensitivity.   International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Miami, Florida, Novemeber 1999.

 

Grossman, R., Yehuda, R., Sta. Maria, N., Dolan, S., Flesichman, M., Naidiach, T., Buchsbaum, M.  18FDG PET imaging of central glucocorticoid sensitivity in PTSD.  American Psychiatric Association, Chicago, IL, May 2000.

 

Heath, D., Gaser, C., Nenadic, I., Bloom, R., Fleischman, M., Platholi, J., Haznedar, M., Aronowitz, J., Buchsbaum, M. S.  Preliminary Data on Neuroimaging Correlates of Diagnosis and Treatment of Prodromal Psychotic States and Sleep Paralysis.   2nd International Conference on Early Psychosis, New York, NY, April 2000.

 

Nenadic, I., Buchsbaum, M.S., Fleischman, M.B., Akhavan, A., Zhang, L., Hazlett, E. Altered Metabolism of Cortical Brodmann areas in Schizophrenia During a verbal Learning Task.  Hans Berger Conference, Jena, Germany; Sept. 1999.

 

Schnur, D., Smith, S., Hazlett, E., Fleischman, M., Nisimova, M., Ahmed, S., Buchsbaum, M..  Quantitative MRI in Bipolar and Schizophrenic Patients.  [Abstract] Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. 2000.

 

Shihabuddin, L., Buchsbaum, M.S., Tang, C., Brickman, A.M., Fleischman, M., New, A., Siever, L.J.  Diffusion Tensor MRI in the Schizophrenia Spectrum.   American Psychiatric Association, Chicago, IL,.May2000.

 

Shihabuddin, L., Buchsbaum, M.S., Tang, C., Brickman, A.M., Fleischman, M., New, A., Siever, L.J.  Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Schizophrenia and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.   Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting 2000.